Contesting the Gothic : fiction, genre and cultural conflict, 1764-1832 /
Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, James Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of fiction, characterised at times by antagonistic relations between writers or works. He examines the novels' political import, and looks ahead to the fluctuating critical status of S...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| coleção: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;
33. |
| Acesso em linha: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=55745 |
Sumário:
- Origins : Horace Walpole and The castle of Otranto
- Loyalist gothic romance
- Gothic 'subversion': German literature, the Minerva Press, Matthew Lewis
- First poetess of romantic fiction: Ann Radcliffe
- Field of romance: Walter Scott, the Waverley novels, the Gothic.